Catalogue-binder.



. W. A. VLIET. CATALOGUE BINDER. APPLICATION FILED rEB.1o, 191s.

Patented Jan. 26, 1915.

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WILLIAM A. VLIET, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

CATALOGUE-BINDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 26, 1915.

Application filed February 10, 1913. Serial No. 747,426.

To all whom. t may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. VLIET, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Catalogue- Binders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a cheap binder in which catalogues, pamphlets or the like, of various sizes, and in any number (up to the capacity of the device) may be quickly secured in suoli manner that each one may be easily removed or conveniently consulted without removal.

A binder embodying this invention will include two covers and a fan-folded back,- the sides of said back being provided with a plurality of holes placed at different distances from the top and bottom, and from the back fold; and preferably there will be a separator sheet secured to each forwardly directed fold of the back and projecting forward therefrom so as to more effectually divide the space between the covers into pamphlet holding compartments.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view of a binder in the compartments of which pamphlets of various sizes are secured. Fig. 2 is a view of the binder open so as to aord ready access to the catalogues bound in one of the compartments.

Referring to the parts by letters, A and B represent the two cover members which preferably will be made of some stiff material such as straw board suitably covered by cloth or paper.

The back I) is an accordion like affair.

That is to say, it is in a form such as would or,.if desired, in both of the folds constituting the back of each pocket, a plurality of holes (Z are formed. These holes are placed at dierent distances from the back fold and at different distances fromv the top and bottom of the member in which they are formed. They are preferably arranged 1n a plurality of horizontal rows extending laterally substantially across the back member in which they are made, and these rows are placed in various positions relative to the top and bottom edges thereof.

To use the described binder to bind pamphlets a cord or tape E is passed through two holes at suitable distance apart, measured up and down, to accommodate the particular pamphlet to be fastened in, and the two selected holes should be at equal distances from the back fold. This cord or tape is passed between leaves of the pamphlet from top to bottom, and then the cord or tape is drawn taut and tied. Or, if desired, perforations g may be made in a pamphlet, and the ends of the cord or tape E, after being passed through two suitably spaced holes d may also be passed through two perforations g of the pamphlet, and then tied as shown at the right side of Fig 2.

Obviously the binder will accommodate pamphlets of all varieties of sizes, which are not too large for it; and any one of them may be consulted without removing it from the binder as freely as if there were no other pamphlets in the binder.

Having described my invention, I claim:

l. A binder for pamphlets and the like comprising the cover members, and a back member which is constructed of stout flexible material fan-folded so as to form a plurality of compartments between the covers, there being in at least one of the back members of each compartment a plurality of holes arranged at different distances from the top and bottom edges and at different distances from the front and rear portions of said fold or folds.

2. A binder for pamphlets and the like comprising the cover members, and a back member which is constructed of stout fleXible material fan-folded so as to form a plurality of compartments between the covers, and separator sheets secured and projected forwardly from the inwardly directed folds In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix of said back, there being in at least one of my signature in the presence of two witthe back members of each compartment a nesses.

plurality of holes arranged at different ds- WILLIAM A. VLIET. .5 tances from the top and bottom edges and Witnesses:

at different distances from the front and E. L. THURSTON,

rear portions of said fold or folds. A. J. HUDSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

